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Listenwave Photography
What does not matter ?😜
1.What to photograph - Camera. 📷📱
2.Where to photograph - Place. 🌋
3.When to photograph -Time.🌅🌄
What is important ?😎
1.Study and tune the camera. 👨🔧
2.Learn where you are going.
3.Study the lighting at different times.🌞🌚
What's the secret?♀️
1.Feel the instrument, hear what it says. 🙏
2.Feel the atmosphere of the place, catch the wave. 🌊
3.Switch on .Catch the moment!⚡️
What to photograph?
✨Finding the observer, comes awareness!✨
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"One day you'll wake up and realize you've lost the moon while you were busy counting the stars."
I PROMISE I'LL HAVE THE Q&A VIDEO UP SOON I filmed it, it's just taking me forever and another forever to edit it. I mean, it'll be up at least before Christmas. At least.
It's sort of funny, but a few days after I read that quote somewhere I was trying to do an astronomy project where we had to take a photo of the moon and label the parts, but the night I went out I literally lost the moon. Like I could see stars but I guess the moon was chillin under clouds. The irony, though.
Love you guys; hope you're stayin happy and healthy and wonderful :)
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A shot of three Gentoo Penguins taken at Bleaker Island in the Falkland Islands.
Looks a little like one of those evolution pictures!
The number of my followers is still rising. a big THANK YOU for everybody out there who cares for my pictures strong enough to follow me!
Die Zahl meiner Follower wächst noch. Ein großes DANKESCHÖN an alle da draußen, die sich die Zeit nehmen, mir zu folgen!
Toy Project Day 786
I dressed on Halloween last year at college, including poorly applied makeup by myself, and went to a pizza place to pick up a pizza and brought it back to my dorm room. I didn't interact with anyone while dressed besides the person working at the pizza place. I don't really count that as a dressing session- plus, the wig had been sitting around for 11 months and hadn't been washed.
I've been living in a big city this summer and one day was out downtown and saw the girls/women around my age in their pretty outfits and thought "that could be me... I need to get back into crossdressing while I'm still young.." (turned 19 in May). A few months later, I got my wig washed, shaved my body, got my eyebrows waxed, nails done, and makeup applied by someone who knew what he was doing this time. Here are some of the best pics and videos taken by me, as I was alone again (as usual with this, but whatever), and the makeup guy. Hope y'all enjoy.
Like always, none of my photos are edited.
Theme: Counting on Hearts - Icon for Hire
Concept Art created using AI Furry Generator
Edited using Krita 5.2.9
I'm counting on hearts like yours
to keep me burning,
to keep me up
'til two in the morning.
You be bright
when I'm starting to rust,
you be 'Why?'
behind the 'What?'
Indeed, some things are not as they seem. Us cats on the 'walks, you could say we are holding onto yesterday's dreams. But you know what? Some things are very much worth fighting for. The life of the cats ruling the rooftops and catwalks, that was something we took to the grave with us. Now, only embers remain cycled through the dust of the ages. Yet, if you listen closely, you may hear the subtle purring flutter through the night sky. Maybe the hairs on the back of your neck may raise, as if indicating that some predator is toying with you as their prey. That shiver you feel on the rooftop during the night, can you be certain that it is merely a subtle cool breeze, or could there be something calling out from nights of the depths of the past to remind you that you were not always safe to be up here? Maybe you still are not, and some ghost during the twilight stalks you and seeks to give you a fright, and remind you of those cats who used to live and fight for their right to rule the rooftops they once called home.
But I will never let go,
never let up my hold,
'cause I know
once you feel it
you can't unfeel it.
once you dream it
you can't undream it.
"...The grabbing hands grab all they can all for themselves,
after all, it's a competitive world everything counts in large amounts..."
Everything counts-Depeche Mode
I stopped to photograph horses in the snow and noticed several barn cats in this shed full of hay bales. How many can you find?
The Watthour counter gearing from an analog Domestic Power meter. The distortions are caused by the thick curved glass cover. The dials are read periodically, subtract the previous reading and your energy usage is now known. HMM!
They are a bit slow coming, hoping they all arrive on mass for the UK's Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count 14th July-6th August. You can show your support by signing up to their Thunderclap using link www.thunderclap.it/projects/59178-big-butterfly-count-2017
I think this little beauty is a Large Skipper. Photo copyright Pat Adams
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Sizes: Legacy, Reborn, Lara, Kupra/Khara, Hulixa, GenXs
6 basic packs, Fatpack and Booster (Tint Hud)
Rachel wears: Reborn Body with Juicy Boobs addon, Lelutka Avalon Head, Hair by Studio Exposure.
So far, for my The Little Mermaid collection, I have:
Ursula x1
Ariel x4
Eric x1
Flounder x2
Edit: I forgot about the pins! I'll have pictures of those sometime soon, along with the rest of my Disney Pin collection.
This Rocky Mountain Parnassian was photographed on Observation Peak in Southern Oregon's Siskiyou Crest. Actually this is one of the five seen on our NABA Butterfly count today.
Home burnt, but most valualbe, animal friend rescued. Now need funds for home rebuilt for both. Every amount counts. Thanks.
This week the girls posed in a very dark & edgy shoot. We wanted them to look sexy, but not too fierce.
Which girl did the best? Leave a score in the comments from 1-10, 1 being terrible and 10 being AMAZING! You must score every girl's photo for your scores to be counted.
I'm on a quest to document how many different birds I see while out and about. These aren't Nat Geo quality shots necessarily, just records of what I see. By different, I mean the different species, of course, but also the males and females of a species if they are substantially different. Also, if a species has major /obvious colour variations, I'll count them as 'different' as well.
January. A visit to Norrköping and a photo of the famous "Strykjärnet" building. February. Windy visit to the rocky beach at Torö. March. A different take on the old tree on a misty day. April. The fields of blooming anemones. Always a spectacular sight every Spring. May. The second annual Tulip Festival in Handen was very colorful. June. A visit to Landsort on a hot Summer day. July. New architecture in Stockholm. August. Always nice with a Summer portrait. September. At the motor racing track watching Crosscart was a first. October. Autumn tree at my favorite beach. November. I had to include a photo from my 100 Days Of Darkness project. December. A typical Swedish Winter view.
My tenth Winter Count for Utata.
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: ?????? ????, mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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